Unruly Practices: Prefigurative Aspirations and the Radical Imagination in the Occupy Movement in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation examines the 2011 Occupy movement in Canada, with a focus on internal movement dynamics and the experience of participation in three Canadian cities: Ottawa, Toronto, and Edmonton.Occupy's primary tactic was the occupation of both public and privately-owned spaces through encampments, and as such Occupy was both a protest and also a space where people created temporary communities and activist hubs.A central argument of this thesis is that the movement's primary focus was the creation, enactment, and reproduction of practices within the encampments, rather than a strategic approach to achieving set goals.These practices were continually debated, reworked, and adjusted over the course of the movement.The concept of the radical imagination is used to conceptualize how movement actors imagine and enact a prefigurative politics, and how this prefigurative tendency played out in the movement's efforts to make decisions, develop collective knowledge, and work out its principles and practices regarding safety and inclusion.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".